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lllh UAZKTTlvTIMES. HEPPNER. OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1918. THE GAZETTE-TIMES Puy a thrift stamp. -5-5- Po your bit by thrift and make a hit for democracy. War savings , The Heppner i.nzette, Established Manh Sit. 13. The Heppner Times. KstaMished November 1 197. Consolidated February 1T, ISIS. stamps call for two bits. Somebody around lone will play VAW'TKK i'KAWFOKIi. Proprietor. ARTHUR R. CRAIVFOKH, Editor. in the fire until they will get their fingers burned yet Issued every Thursday mornitifr. and entered at the l'ostoffloe at Heppner, Oregon, as second -class matter. Like dimes into dollars, will thrift stamps into war savings stamps grow. ADMCKT1MX; RATKS ; 1 V K O . APPl.K'ATIO.N A few of them are equal to a liberty bond. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Tear $1.50 Six Months - 75 Three Months .50 Single Copies .05 One man claimed exemption from the draft because "he had three boot leggers dependent upon him." He must have been a millionaire. MORROW COVSTY OFFICIAL PAPER Four We are in receipt of letter from a subscriber who calls our attention to a distrains circumstance and "in behalf of the young people I wish to ask if somehing cannot be done to check the disgraceful epedemic of drunkedness In our county." - The communication continues "Our young folk cannot go to a dance without be ing subjected to the degrading. influ ence of men, yes, and women, too, who are drunk and using language unfit for anyone to hear." We do not doubt the sincerity of the writer and the truth of the state ments she has made. Surely such conditions of drunkedness and vul garity should not be permissable at a dance, and are not to be expected in a dry county. Continuing in her article, the writer wants to know where our of- ficers are and what they are doing In regard to suppressing drunkedness. She says to her knowledge, conditions of drunkedness exist at Cecil, lone, Lexington and Heppner. In conclusion our correspondent asks us to do something that will ov ercome existing conditions. In other words, she would have us devise ways and means for putting the boot leg ger out of business and suppress the traffic in booze which undoubtedly does exist in this county today. It is needless for us to mention the fight this paper made in previous years to put the saloon on the shelf for keeps. The saloon evil was final ly recognized and overcome. It is but natural that resultant evils, such as bootlegging, should follow. So long as booze is made it will be cir culated to some extent and drunk by those who want to go to the expense and the trouble of patronizing the bootlegger. Of course the law is being violated when booze is sold. Time and again officers have taken cases "under ad visement" only to find later that evi dence was lacking for a conviction. We are not saying that our officers have been as vigilant in catching bootleggers as they might have been Judging from convictions and the number of bootleggers who have been taken into tow, we would say they have not been relentless on the man who sells booze. But after all, pub lie opinion has yet to be educated to the point where it will recognize the full disobediance of the law and give the officers that necessary evidence to make a conviction. Yet, as we view it, there is nothing in the world to keep an officer off of the bootleggers, once he is firmly con. vinced that the law is being violated and this should not be hard to see, as the law is plainly written. On the other hand, as long as con ditions are in their present state, and as our correspondent says, drunked ness t public dances continues, w-j can only say, stay away from the dances until such a time as present evil conditions are stamped out. Like the slow evolution of public opinion turned against the saloon, it will turn also against the bootlegger. Officers will become more vigilant, it will be harder for the law-breaking liquor dealer to ply his trade and drunkedness will no longer be a no ticeable evil at the dance or else where. The worm turns slowly. 5-5 Have you tried a submarine trip up Main street? Yes, paved streets would have to be kept clean but how are you going to wash this mud? "Military Party Hag Firm Grip la Berlin" is the information we get from the headlines. A good stand-in at home ought to be worth something to the gaiser, but he Is not so well known at home as abroad evidently. A pure, 100 per cent American said something naughty about one of the German leaders and thought after ward he might have hurt the feel ings of a man of German birth who happened to hear him. That's the trouble with us Americans, too easy about our neighbors' feelings. We forget that we are all Americans, or at least should be. There is no room here for the man whose feelings could be hurt by anything we might gay about the kaiser or any of his bloody crew. Let'er buck, boys. There are a few fellows who have nearly choked themselves with their n purse strings, they have been so tigfit. You will hear them say in future drives, "No, I can't give any more, I gave a dollar to the Red Cross." You will hear that plea, but it won't go. A dollar a month ago or a dollar six months ago won't serve the purpose for which the new drives will be made. We're going to get the kaiser and you will have to give more than a dollar for a ring side seat. Germany Is not yet satisfied with the fighting spirit displayed by Eng land, so she made another raid on the English coast this week and killed a few civilians. A' six-cent passenger fare on the Portland street cars has caused a run on pennies. And everybody waits for his change. They say an extra car has to follow up to carry the coppers. Launching a new ocean-going steel ship in Portland now creates 'about as much excitement as a drunken sailor walking down Market street. They are turning out ships at a fast rate down there and men for ship yard labor are In big demand. 8-5 AMERICAN EFFICIENCY. All the damage done to 109 Ger man ships by their crews, prior to their seizure by the. United States government when war was declared, has been repaired and these ships are today in service, adding more than 500,000 gross tonnage to the trans port and cargo fleets in war service for the United States. There Is evidence that a German central authority gave an order for destruction on these ships, effective on or about February 1, 1917, simul taneous with the date set for unre stricted submarine warfare and that the purpose was to inflict such vital damage to the machinery of all Ger man ships in our ports that none could be operated for from 18 months to two years. This purpose has been defeated in signal fashion. In less than eight months all the ships were in service. The destructive campaign of the German crews cunningly com prehended a system of ruin which they believed would necessitate the shipping of new machinery to substi tute for that which was ruthlessly battered down or painstakingly dam aged by drilling or dismantlement. There is documentary proof that the enemy believed the damage irrepar able. To obtain new machinery would have entailed a prolonged process of design, manufacture, and installa tion. Urged by the necessity of con serving time the engineers of the navy department succeeded, by unique means, In patching and weld ing the broken parts and replacing all of the-standard parts which the Germans detached from their engines and destroyed or threw overboard. The mechanical evidence is that the campaign of destruction was op erated on these ships for more than two months and that the Germans were convinced that they were mak ing a thorough job- of it. Their scheme of ruin was shrewdly devised, deliberately executed, and it ranged from the plugging of steam pipes to the utter demolition of-boilers by dry firing. When the United States shipping board experts first surveyed the ruin the belief was expressed that much new machinery would have to be de signed, manufactured and installed, making 18 months a fair minimum estimate of the time required. How ever, at the navy department, where the need of troop and cargo ships was an urgent issue, officers of the bu reau of steam engineering, having faith that the major portion of the repairs could be accomplished by patching and welding, declared it was possible to clear the ships for service by Christmas, and the last of the fleet actually took her final sea test and was ordered into service as a Thanksgiving gift to the nation. It has long been the German's' boast that they are the moat efficient nation on earth, but they are learning a great many things since they went to war. One Is that the United States is not to be trifled with. It was fond ly believed that the German ships in terned in American ports would be rendered useless tor the period of the war, but American ingenuity and American efficiency made them ready for service within a few months. This same American Ingenuity and effi ciency is going to give Germany a great many more severe shocks be fore the war Is over. Eugene Reg ister. WANTED Ewe lambs, white face, wool on. Delivery your nearest rail road station. State price and number you have for sale. COFFIN BROS., North Yakima, Wash. Among The Gazette-Times sub scribers and renewals during the past week are C. L. Keithley and Joe Rec tor of Heppner, Albert Hahn of Se attle, Sam J. Turner of San Francisco and M. E. Smith of Junction City, Ore. PAIGE IRRIGON NEWS ITEMS (Toe late for last week.) ' I Edgar Doerlng has entered the school at Boardman. , Fred Caldwell was in Hermiston Saturday on business. Mrs. N. Seaman spent a few days at Portland this week. Mrs. C. J. Caldwell was on the sick list a few days last week. . Mr. Samson was busy a few days last week leveling up around the de pot. L, M. Davis has completed his gar age and is busy leveling land east of town. Mr. . Ashburn has contracted to plow 20 acres for Mr. Warrenton south of town. Mrs. L. Graybeal was visiting with the Burchest family of Umatilla a few days last week. Mrs. L. M. Davis and son were Her miston visitors Saturday morning. They went over for dental work. Irrigon girls over 15 are invited to a party at Umatilla Saturday night by the high school girls of that place. Mrs. Ashburn spent a few days with her daughter at Sunnyside, Wn. Her husband has enlisted for mili tary service. Mrs. Mack Corey was on the sick list a few days this week. At first H was feared she had scarletina, but it developed that she had the grippe.; ' The Irrigon pupils who completed their club work last year have re ceived their prizes. The winners are Devls Lane, Mae Davis and Lula Sea man. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Corey are leav ing this week for Seattle where they will visit his parents before he takes his examination to enlist In the aerial corps at Vancouver. Every indication of spring having arrived may be found at Irrigon, ex cept the date, as we have peas grow ing from 3 to 4 Inches high, lettuce, carrots and other truck. Fruit trees are also in the first stages of bloom, but according to the calendar it is winter. Mr. Lane is home again with his family. Mr. and Mrs. Walt Caldwell are In Irrigon visiting with friends. Mrs. Ricks Is again supplying the Irrigon neighborhood with beef. Mrs. W. A. Walpole and family were -Hermiston visitors this week. t&zeAiast Beautiful CarinyJmerioa THOUGH the Paige Essex "Six" is a large car, it is also an economical car a thoroughly practical vehicle for the man who wishes to avoid excessive "upkeep" without sacrificing luxurious comfort and a vast range of . power " In brief it offers every advantage of the very high priced, high powered touring car and none of the disadvantages. It is a superb motor car an artistic achievement and a mechanical masterpiece. Essex "Six-55" 7-passenger $1775; Coupe "Six-55 ' 4-nassenger $2850: Town Car"Six-55" 7-passengef $3230; Limousine "Six-55 " 7-passenser 53210; Sedan "Six-55 7-passenger $2850, Rrooklands 4-passenger $1795; Linwood "Six-IT 5-passener $1330, lilcndale "Six-W Chummy Roadster $1330, Dartmoor "Six-3T 2 or 3-passenger $1330; Sedan "Six W 5-passenger $1925. All Prices f.o. b. Detroit. - DETROIT MOTOR CAR RIVERS AUTO CO., lone, Ore. Fred Caldwell is busy leveling his land and getting It ready for seeding. ' Mr. and Mrs. Rider are.entertain ing a couple of friends from Idaho this week. j L. M. Davis and family were Board man visitors Sunday and Monday to see the rabbit drive. Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Caldwell, Geo. Caldwell, Bruce Rider and Fred Davis attended an entertainment in Hermiston Friday night. Among the farmers who are busy leveling more land for Spring seed ing we note Mr. Piersol, L. A. Doble, Mr. Dawson, Mr. Grim, Mr. Relks and Mr. Davis. Among those leaving during the week were Mr. and Mrs. Orsull Daw son for the East where Mr. Dawson will work, Mr. and Mrs. Guy Corey for 8eattle, where Mr. Corey will work In the shipyards and Bruce Ri der to southern Oregon to visit with friends and relatives. I haul baggage and passengers to and from the depot to any part of the city. Phone 665 or 183. Lee Cant-well. SAVE MEAT and help observe the MEATLESS DAYS by using more MACARONI. FOR ONE WEEK we will make some very SPECIAL PRICES on Macaroni, Spaghetti, Vermicelli REGULAR 12i2c PACKAGES. . . . . . . . . 1 0c REGULAR 10c PER LB. IN BULK .... .8!Jc You may never be able to duplicate these prices again during the war. PHELPS GROCERY COMPANY 1 COMPANY, DETROIT, MICHIGAN TIME TO ACT Don't Wait for the Fatal Stages of Kidney Illness, Profit by Heiner People's Kxperienoes. Occasional attacks of backacke, bladder weakness, headaches and diz zy spells are frequent symptoms of kidney disorders. It's an error to ne glect these ills. The attacks may pass off for a time but generally return with greater intensity. Don't delay a minute. Begin taking Doan's Kid ney Pills, and keep up their use un til the desired results are obtained. Good work in Heppner proves the ef fectiveness of this great kidney reme dy. Mrs. A. Mlssildtne, Court St., Heppner, says: "It was a good many years ago that I took Doan's Kidney Pills and I know from the benefit that I received at that time that they are all that is claimed for them. If it would be necessary to take a .kidney medicine again, I would use Doan's Kidney Pills, for I have always had a great deal of confidence in them." Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy get Doan's Kidney Pills the same that Mrs. Misslldine had. Foster-Milburn Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y. ANNOUNCEMENT. I hereby announce myself as a can didate for Sheriff of Morrow County on the Republican ticket at the com ing Primary Election. I am a pioneer resident of this county and heretofore have never asked any favers of the voters, and I would not do so at this time did I not know that I am competent to admin ister the affairs of the office In an effi cient manner. If nominated and elected I will endeavor to enforce the law, and han dle the affairs of the office as econ omically as is consistent with the duties of the office. Yours truly, WILLARD H. HERREN. 1500 ACRES FARMING LAND FOU SALE. . The Penland farm adjoining the town of Lexington, Ore., is for sale in whole or In part. Part cash and terms on balance to suit. E. NORDYKE, Lexington, Ore. FOR SALE Thoroughbred Lin coln Ewes in lots to suit. H. Stan ley Coffin, North Yakima, Wash.
